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The Great Bustard will still occasionally find its way 
here, and would remain with us if allowed to do so. 
Mr. Hancock tells me that he saw one during the pre¬ 
sent spring (1854), which was shot in a turnip field, 
near Brampton, in Cumberland. 
The increasing taste for ornithology, and the mania to 
possess a British-killed specimen of any rare bird, has 
made it hopeless that any such bird, especially if of large 
size, should long escape with life after having unluckily 
landed on our shores. 
